The next part of my marketing plan has been accomplished: I bought a domain. I now reside at www.ChesapeakeBayCrochet.com. Right now, the only thing there is a notification that the website is under construction.
$$$ TIP: Be sure to include the cost of the domain and the hosting in your expenses. If you purchase any software, such as a shopping cart application, be sure to include that cost, too.
I also ordered business cards and business card labels from Vistaprint that look remarkably like the picture on the right. The image is a photo I took of Chesapeake Bay with the Chesapeake Baby Bridge Tunnel in the distance. This is at the eastern-most edge of the bay and I took the photo from a point on the Eastern Shore.
The labels look just like the business card.
The key to a successful start-up, is to do something to further your business every day. Make sure you take a step forward every day. In addition to designing and ordering business and buying the domain, I crocheted a bath set for my "Spa Collection." It consists of a bath puff, a wash cloth and two face scrubbies. I intend to package them in a white box that is about 6"x6"x6" and tied up with blue twine. All I need to get is some tissue paper to wrap the items in and some pretty little hostess soaps, maybe in the shape of a sea shell... or I may even go shell collecting so I can place a few sea shells in the box.
The idea is to make it cute and sell-able!
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